Chris Dodd: “I chair the Subcommittee on Children and Families and have for a long time.”

I'll tell you, one of the things I feel very good about is that there are people like Bob Menendez, who care about these issues.

I had hoped we'd get in the lame duck session to the ratification of the Colombian Free Trade Agreement and the Panamanian Free Trade Agreement.

But, whether such a temptation is motivated by a noble desire to speed up the legislative process or by pure political expedience, I believe such changes would be unwise. To my fellow Senators who have never served a day in the minority, I…

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.